1972-01-26 — WMAK 1300 AM ( Nashville, Tennessee )

1300/WMAK
SUPERHIT SURVEY

WEEK BEGINNING
January 26, 1972

TW	LW	ARTIST	TITLE	WKS	NOTES
6	7	Al Green	Let's Stay Together	7
11	18	Apollo 100	Joy	5
HB	--	B.J. Thomas	Rock And Roll Lullaby
1	2	Badfinger	Day After Day	8
4	5	Betty Wright	Clean Up Woman	8
9	4	Beverly Bremers	Don't Say You Don't Remember	9
HB	--	Bread	Everything I Own
10	13	Carly Simon	Anticipation	5	Aka “The Ketchup Song”
29	33	Carole King	Sweet Seasons	3
12	21	Carpenters	Hurting Each Other	3
8	10	Charley Pride	Kiss An Angel Good Mornin'	6
33	37	Cher	The Way Of Love	2
2	1	Climax	Precious And Few	9	Lead singer: Sonny Geraci, formerly of The Outsiders
7	3	Don McLean	American Pie (Parts I & II)	10
22	17	Donnie Elbert	Where Did Our Love Go	10	Holland-Dozier-Holland song originally recorded by the Supremes
16	20	Faces	Stay With Me	5
32	39	Frank Mills	Love Me, Love Me Love	2
39	--	Grand Funk Railroad	Footstompin' Music	1	Reverted to “G.F. Railroad” after 3 albums billed as “Grand Funk”
25	32	Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds	Daisy Mae	4
23	16	Melanie	Brand New Key	11	There has to be more to this song than the obvious. (cont in Goodies)
40	--	Melanie	The Nickel Song	1
3	8	Nilsson	Without You	5
HB	--	Paul Simon	Mother And Child Reunion
31	35	Raiders	Country Wine	2
26	15	Rare Earth	Hey Big Brother	10
18	22	Redbone	The Witch Queen Of New Orleans	7
17	28	Robert John	The Lion Sleeps Tonight	4	Solomon Linda’s family FINALLY received some of the royalties due him 38 years AFTER he died. And then only because of a (cont i
37	--	Rock Flowers	Number Wonderful	1	Created to advertise Mattel dolls, also called “Rock Flowers”; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmVzMiJ5dc0
20	25	Scott English	Brandy	4	English wrote this song, renamed “Mandy” when popularized by Barry Manilow, so as not to confuse it with the Looking Glass song
34	40	T. Rex	Bang A Gong (Get It On)	2
28	30	The 5th Dimension	Together Let's Find Love	4
19	31	The Addrisi Brothers	We've Got To Get It On Again	4	They wrote a few songs for the Association.
36	HB	The Bee Gees	My World	1
27	34	The Congregation	Softly Whispering I Love You	3	. In the US, billed as English Congregation. (Now) local boy Mike Curb Congregation recorded & released this later in the year.
38	HB	The Free Movement	The Harder I Try (The Bluer I Get)	1
13	11	The Honey Cone	One Monkey Don't Stop No Show Part I	7
24	24	The Jackson 5	Sugar Daddy	5
15	9	The New Seekers	I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing (In Perfect Harmony)	9	My late friend Pat McGeachy attended an international (cont in Goodies)
21	29	The Osmonds	He's The Light Of The World	3	“B” side of #30; not “Brothers” since ’70. It is interesting that one side of the single is “Osmond Brothers”, other “Osmonds"
30	--	The Osmonds	Down By The Lazy River	1	"A" side of #21
35	38	The Supremes	Floy Joy	2
14	26	Three Dog Night	Never Been To Spain	4	Another Hoyt Axton song from 3DN

ALBUM CHARTS

TW	LW		ARTIST	ALBUM	WKS	NOTES
			Kenny Rogers And The First Edition	The Ballad Of Calico		Feature Album

Is this David Cassidy singing in the shower even?

Cover: 
America’s disc jockey of the year…
Scott Shannon.  Selected by “16-Spec” Magazine.

Song notes cont:
16.Presbyterian gathering. The only 2 songs that everybody knew were:
(1) Amazing Grace” and (2) I’d Like to Teach the World…”
17. Rolling Stone article by Rian Malan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_Sleeps_Tonight
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/in-the-jungle
-inside-the-long-hidden-genealogy-of-the-lion-sleeps-tonight-108274/
23. If she’d written this when she was 15, ok.I mean this is
Melanie Safka. But compare “Candles in the Rain” -> “Lay Down”.
Maybe it is a euphemism for sex. My theory is that the key is
for a car. (1) You buy a new set of skates, the key is included.
(2) “Don’t drive no car…”; “… who don’t drive…” [a car?]